Coulomb dissociation, a tool for nuclear astrophysics
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A short status report on Coulomb dissociation, an indirect method for nuclear astrophysics is given. An analytically solvable approach to study electromagnetic excitation in Be, the archetype of a halo nucleus, is proposed. PACS numbers: 21.10.-k, 25.60.-t, 26.50.tx
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